| Bishan Park is approximately 52 ha with its lakes and bridges, colourful shrubs and lush greenery, is one of the largest and most popular parks in Singapore. Built in 1988, the beauty of the park is often captured on prints by shutterbugs or used as backdrop for wedding pictures. There are cycling track, children's playground, big pond, dog run, Frangipani Garden, fitness corner, granite wall garden, foot reflexology, garden spa, amphitheater & stage, etc.
There is also a Palm Court features a myriad of palms including Chinese Fan Palm, Phoenix Palm and Alexandra Palm.
 Chinese Fan Palms (Livistona chinensis) make slow-growing, but striking landscape specimens, and reaches an average height of 40 feet. It has a diameter of less than 12 inches. The Chinese Fan Palm is tolerant of poor soils, but does the best when regularly fertilized. This palm is very hardy and can withstand several degrees below freezing without appreciable damage. Because of its dipping palm leaves, the plant was nicknamed the Fountain Palm.
The Phoenix Palm is also known as the Canary Island Date Palm (Phoenix canariensis). Birds, possums and rats sometimes live in their crowns, coating the spines with droppings and bacteria. If they are not cleaned up, this can lead to blood poisoning. The Canary Island Date Palm is a large palm native to the Canary Islands off the Atlantic coast of north Africa.
The Alexandra Palm (Archontophoenix alexandrae) is named in honour of Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who later became the Queen of England when her husband ascended the throne as Edward VII. The generic name comes from the Greek words archon and phoenix, meaning majestic and date palm.
Bishan Park was constructed in 1988 and will undergo redevelopment commencing in the final quarter of 2009. On 3rd October 2009, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong opened the Kallang River-Bishan Park Test-bed to the public, since December 2008, a 60m test-bed project was constructed to study the selection of plants and materials suitable for lining the riverbanks, with the opening will give park users' a personal preview of Bishan Park's future developments, come and step down to the canal, wet your toes and have fun spotting the rich fauna at the site.
 There is no tour here.
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January 2010.